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mariolucario493 · 1 year

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IF ONLY THERE WAS A BUNNY IN THE WINNIE THE POOH UNIVERSE

#Winnie the Pooh #fail #Easter #rabbit

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mariolucario493 · 1 year

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Hey y’all, since you seem to like my first post, I got a few more for you:

Wreck-it Ralph: The plight of the blue-collar everyman in movie form, which encourages a healthy work-life balance, while also being a love letter to retro gaming.

Rise of the Guardians: A nostalgic throwback to that carefree time in everyone’s childhood when the world seemed magical and full of wonder. Just an all-around good time for anyone who is a kid at heart.

Mulan: We all know about how it deconstructs gender roles, but not as many people talk about how it also lampshades the over-glorification of military culture. America’s tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen.

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Maybe you could see the way Jack steals Christmas without understanding its value as a metaphor for cultural appropriation. Well, it’s a creative premise regardless, and stop motion is underrated anyway.

Monsters, Inc.: A satire of workplace culture that explores corporate corruption, ethical business practices, and the push for renewable energy. WAY more relevant nowadays.

Monsters University: Building on its predecessor, now we add commentary on the educational system and how it fails to adequately prepare students for the real world, instead focusing on molding them into new cogs for the machine.

WALL-E: Again, much more relevant now that it was when it first came out. Look at the Buy n Large megacorporation and tell me you don’t think that’s what Disney itself has become in recent years. For a story about the future of humanity, it manages to be both cynical and hopeful. There's also some religious undertones in there as well.

Atlantis: the Lost Empire: If the word “underrated” could be defined in one movie, it would be this. But it also has a bit of commentary on how the age of exploration was and still is harmful to marginalized cultures. Just take this quote from the movie: “If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you’d be left with an empty building.” Your move, Britain.

Frozen 2: This one explores how our perception of history is skewed by bias and misinformation. Let’s just say that the autumnal Thanksgiving-esque atmosphere of this movie isn’t just for aesthetic purposes.

Treasure Planet: Another hidden gem, which reimagines a classic literary story in such a unique way, you won’t care if the worldbuilding makes no sense. Not to mention the heartwarming father-son dynamic of the two leads. Also some of the best blending of hand-drawn and CG animation I’ve ever seen.

Ron’s Gone Wrong: A criticism of online relationships that suggests that you shouldn’t rely on algorithms to determine your social life.

Captain Underpants: No, seriously, this movie is really good. Not only does it do the books justice by raising a blatant middle finger to public schools that quash creativity, but it also has a really good message about the importance of having a sense of humor.

Encanto: Family dilemmas such as grief, parental pressure, and feelings of inadequacy are abound here. I also personally saw some commentary on social media influencers in there as well, but that might just be me. Add on a celebration of Colombian culture and some of the catchiest songs ever written, and you have a movie that deserves all the praise it’s gotten and more.

Turning Red: Similar themes of generational trauma to Encanto, but with some metaphors about puberty and suppressing/embracing personal identity thrown in for good measure.

Hercules: The way Hercules wants to join the gods on Olympus but ultimately chooses to remain on Earth as a mortal could be seen as something of an analogy for secular humanism. Am I overthinking this?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: No, it hasn’t come out yet, but if the trailers are to be believed, this is going to be an incredibly faithful adaptation of the games. And proof that any idea for a movie has potential if you get the right people. Still not a big fan of Chris Pratt though.

Fantasia: Pretty much the ultimate magnum opus of animation and perhaps of cinema as a whole. It has no real plot, which allows it to go all out as a visual and auditory artistic experience.

People who still think animation is just for kids, let me remind you about:

The Lion King: A beautiful and epic drama about the importance of accepting responsibility for one’s actions, particularly how it applies to those in positions of power.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Features dark themes such as racial genocide, sexuality, and religious extremism; but also has a lot of heart and some very poignant points about the role of faith in the modern world.

Zootopia: An allegory for injustice of just about any kind, which uses humans’ perceptions of animals to prove a point about how we perceive people.

Inside Out: A coming-of-age tale that focuses on the importance of emotional stability and empathy.

Coco: A beautifully written celebration of Latin American culture that highlights the importance of family, music, and our relationship with the dead.

The Prince of Egypt: An adaptation of one of the most famous religious stories of all time that keeps the spirit of the original story intact but still feels fresh and new.

Megamind: A comedy that subverts many superhero tropes and uses them to prove a point about the often black-and-white perception of morality.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: A fresh take on the mythos of one of the world’s most famous superheroes that has a unique art style and blends comedy and drama brilliantly.

The Iron Giant: A criticism of blind patriotism and an exploration of free will, supposedly pitched with the question, “What if a gun had a soul?”

The How to Train your Dragon trilogy: An analysis of mankind’s relationship with animals and how we treat them as “others,” which often leads to misconceptions about nonhuman intelligence.

Finding Nemo: A cautionary tale for parents about how much they should allow their children to be independent.

The Lego Movie: A funny and heartwarming tale of family bonding that encourages people to think creatively and discourages blind uniformity and authoritarian rule.

The Incredibles movies: Analyze how society conditions us to follow a cause and how we often forget that those of high social status are still human.

Shrek: A satirical criticism of beauty standards and the oversaturation of certain unrealistic tropes in media.

Big Hero 6: Shows healthy ways to cope with depression and post-traumatic stress and teaches us that mental health should not be disregarded.

The Croods: An assessment of fear of the unknown and why it shouldn’t necessarily keep us from living life to the fullest.

Frozen: A fairytale about coping with the anxiety that is produced by the pressure society puts on certain individuals.

The Kung Fu Panda movies: Focus a lot on the philosophical side of martial arts and how self-confidence is conducive to success.

Moana: Explores how culture and society shape our identities and how those identities can become misguided while at the same time celebrating the often overlooked culture of the Pacific Islands.

Kubo and the Two Strings: An artistic marvel about how nothing lasts forever, but nor does change mean the end.

Up: Highlights the dangers of being blinded by nostalgia and how to properly honor one’s legacy.

Tarzan: A drama about man’s relationship with nature and how much one is influenced by their environment.

The Secret of NIMH: A philosophical exploration of our desire for knowledge and how ethics must be brought into consideration as we seek to better ourselves.

The Toy Story movies: Explore themes of inadequacy, mortality, parenthood, and one’s purpose in life from the perspective of children’s playthings.

Lilo & Stitch: A clever family drama that focuses on a non-conventional family and doesn’t hold back with the hardships of raising children.

Ratatouille: A metaphor for the struggles that creative minds face and how society often rejects works of art for superficial reasons. Like, for example, that it’s animated, so that probably means it’s just for kids.

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mariolucario493 · 2 years

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Upon rewatching The Princess and the Frog, I noticed something unusual about the Mardi Gras parade floats:

Many of them are references to past Disney movies that were directed by the team of John Musker and Ron Clements.

First, the most obvious. This one is a clear Little Mermaid homage, resembling King Triton.

Another shot of the Triton float, where you can see that Musker and Clements themselves make cameos as the fish guys. (They like to sneak themselves into their movies.) The float behind them resembles an evil wizard overlooking an Arabian kingdom - Jafar from Aladdin, perhaps?

A flying pirate ship in front of a crescent moon? Could that be a callback to the extremely underrated Treasure Planet? I guess it could also be a Peter Pan reference; but given that Treasure Planet was John and Ron’s passion project, I wouldn’t be surprised if they snuck it in there.

There was no Hercules float, but Mr. LaBouff did dress as Julius Caesar at the masquerade ball. I know that’s ancient Rome, not ancient Greece; but it’s close enough.

As for The Great Mouse Detective...uh...well, Charlotte’s cat kinda looks like a cuter version of Felicia. (Note that Musker and Clements were not the only directors of GMD, but I thought I’d include it anyway since it’s pretty underrated as well.)

BONUS: You may already know this, but a very familiar lamp shows up during the song “Dig a Little Deeper:”

#disney #the princess and the frog #john musker and ron clements #easter eggs

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mariolucario493 · 2 years

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Warning: Spoilers for Lightyear below:

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They really did time travelling old man Chris Evans again.

#lightyear #pixar #disney #buzz lightyear #zurg #chris evans #captain america

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mariolucario493 · 2 years

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“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”

“Well, I think so, Brain, but why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?”

#pinky and the brain

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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Disney’s Encanto Review/Analysis Time!

Warning: Here be spoilers

Long story short: it’s really good.

Here are the elements that stood out to me:

1. The songs. This is some of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s best work since Hamilton. Moana’s songs were good, but only one or two of them really felt like LMM’s signature style. In Encanto, every single time a character starts singing, you can immediately tell who wrote these songs.

2. The themes of self-fulfilling prophecies. Most modern Disney movies has some underlying message that relates to societal and psychological pressures. For Raya and the Last Dragon, it was about trust. For Big Hero 6, it was about coping with grief. For Zootopia, it was about prejudice and the debate of nature vs. nurture. For Moana, it was about how much we allow the past to define us. And for Encanto, it seems to be self-fulfilling prophecies. We have a character who is an outcast because of his ability to see the future, but it’s implied that those futures are shaped by the family’s reactions to his visions. For example, he predicts that it’s going to rain at his sister’s wedding. Well, said sister has the ability to control the weather based on her mood. When she gets stressed, it rains. But the self-fulfilling prophecy theme is actually present throughout the whole movie. The idea of each family member having a magical gift that defines them ends up causing them stress because they are expected to live up to what the family and the town expects from a person with such a gift.

3. The climax, which is not very action-based. It’s mostly just characters talking (and singing) about how they feel. There is a scene of the house falling apart and people running for their lives, but after that, it’s mostly just quiet dialogue. This is something I was not too pleased with about Frozen 2 - that they threw in a big action-packed climax for no reason when most of that conflict could have been solved with words. I mean, if the whole point was that the dam had to come down to atone for the sins of the past, why do they need to destroy it so quickly and suddenly? Couldn’t they just take it apart piece by piece? We don’t remove statues of Robert E. Lee by nuking them from orbit! But I digress. The point is that it’s a really refreshing to see a conflict that isn’t resolved with big explosions or exciting feats of courage.

And that brings me to the best part of the whole movie:

4. The grandmother. This is probably the most sympathetic “stern traditional parental figure” character that I’ve ever seen from Disney. She’s not a straight-up villain, but she is the source of most of the film’s conflict. We’ve seen countless Disney movies about a parent or grandparent who doesn’t understand their free-spirited or oddball child. To name a few, we’ve got The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tarzan, Chicken Little, Brave, Frozen, Zootopia, Moana, and Coco. And let’s talk about Coco specifically, because that’s the one I want to focus on.

And no, I’m not singling Coco out because it just happens to be another Disney animated movie about Latin American culture. It’s because Coco’s grandmother character was always the weakest element of that otherwise flawless movie IMO. I felt that her redemption, while a very heartwarming moment, was still a little rushed. She just shed some tears of joy, and then everyone is happy again. They never bring up how she essentially abused Miguel but somehow gets forgiven instantaneously. In Encanto, the grandmother actually has quite a few scenes where she expresses how concerned she is about keeping her family together. And we see her promise to do better in the future, even though it will be difficult. I don’t think we’ve seen such a realistic redemption in a Disney movie like this before. Every other Disney parent just turns on a dime (or dies), but this is probably the first one to contemplate how hard change can be since maybe Inside Out. It’s a really great subversion of what is quickly becoming a tired Disney trope. Often times, too much focus on the main character causes side characters to be rushed. But in Encanto, every member of the Madrigal family gets time to shine. It’s not just Mirabel’s story, it’s about all of them.

So there you go. Encanto is probably not going to be in my top 10 Disney movies list, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

#encanto #disney #review

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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#danganronpa #trigger happy havoc #junko enoshima #the brave little toaster

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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The ladies be callin me Thanos because I can make them scream with just two fingers

#thanos

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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Can’t wait for the Plankton origin story movie where his mom chokes to death on a Krabby Patty

#cruella #plankton #spongebob

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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This movie was ahead of its time

#monsters university #mike wazowski #pixar #karen

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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A reminder that moms aren’t the only characters in Pixar movies who got that wagon

#disney #pixar #brave #scottish pride #dummy thicc #mum it's just my bow #if you had the chance to change your fate would ya

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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If Spider-Man and Black Widow had sex, would she try to eat him afterwards?

#same thing with mantis i guess #marvel #spider-man #black widow #shower thoughts

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mariolucario493 · 3 years

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Jimmy Neutron says that the existence of Santa Claus is scientifically impossible despite the fact that he himself has invented:

Time travel

Teleportation

A robot dog with artificial intelligence that rivals that of the most powerful supercomputers

The ability to shrink and grow objects without affecting their density

The ability to travel through space at faster-than-light speeds without the need for spacesuits

A pocket dimension for storing nearly infinite amounts of matter

An instantaneous and near-perfect human cloning device

The ability to reverse the aging process

Portals to parallel universes

Anti-gravity technology

The ability to see and even enter a person’s dreams

A machine that converts anything into a renewable fuel source

Some way for his tiny body to support his enormous head without falling over

But for some reason, he can’t seem to deliver presents around the entire world in just one night without Santa’s help.

There are two conclusions I can gather from this.

1. Jimmy Neutron actually admires Santa and wanted to meet him, so he willingly put his friends in mortal danger so Santa would rescue them

2. Jimmy Neutron doesn’t think that anyone besides himself should be able to defy the laws of science, and he considers Santa a threat to his plans of world domination

Either way, we can all agree that Jimmy Neutron is a mad god. He has no value for anything other than his own brilliant intellect, as the infamous “sodium chloride” bit has proven, and he will willingly put people in harm’s way just so he can use his inventions to save them. Just like Syndrome. And come to think of it, they do have similar hairdos...

Like Frankenstein, Jurassic Park, and The Secret of NIMH, Jimmy Neutron is actually a very deep cautionary tale on the ethical considerations of scientific progress.

#skeet was right #jimmy neutron #nickelodeon #but that's just a theory

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mariolucario493 · 4 years

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Oh, also, since Isabella’s catchphrase is “Whatcha doin’?” she’s basically always asking Phineas and Ferb “What are you doing, step bros?”

Guys, I just realized something!

Phineas and Ferb is a show about a teenage girl who frequently gets caught up in her younger stepbrothers’ antics while trying to get them in trouble, which slowly drives her insane.

Drake and Josh is a show about two teenage stepbrothers who frequently get caught up in their younger sister’s antics while trying to get her in trouble, which slowly drives them insane.

THEY’RE INVERSIONS OF ONE ANOTHER!

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mariolucario493 · 4 years

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Guys, I just realized something!

Phineas and Ferb is a show about a teenage girl who frequently gets caught up in her younger stepbrothers’ antics while trying to get them in trouble, which slowly drives her insane.

Drake and Josh is a show about two teenage stepbrothers who frequently get caught up in their younger sister’s antics while trying to get her in trouble, which slowly drives them insane.

THEY’RE INVERSIONS OF ONE ANOTHER!

#drake and josh #phineas and ferb

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mariolucario493 · 4 years

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-An unnamed security company in the PnFverse makes security systems specially for keeping out platypi

-The anti-platypus system is installed in air ventilation ducts and includes: horizontal closing spike walls, lasers, a piranha pit, more lasers, and a swinging blade

#phineas and ferb #pnf #worldbuilding #At the Car Wash

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mariolucario493 · 4 years

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Guys, what if Mother Gothel lost a loved one long ago, and “Bring back what once was mine” was her attempt to revive them? Mother Gothel’s goal is eternal youth, so presumably this person’s death made her become aware of her own mortality as well. But the flower realizes she is more concerned with her own mortality than seeing this other person again, so it makes her young instead. Notice how when she sneaks into baby Rapunzel’s room, she is only interested in taking the flower back. She never intended to kidnap a baby. But when she realizes that cutting Rapunzel’s hair makes the magic go away, she resorts to drastic measures.

#disney #tangled #rapunzel #mother gothel #theory

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